From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759956AbXGJS7R (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754113AbXGJS7H (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:07 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:57030 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754505AbXGJS7G (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:59:07 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months Message-ID: <20070710185907.GA7139@elf.ucw.cz> References: <468D4D82.8030009@linux.intel.com> <468E6F0C.1090601@redhat.com> <468E6F4C.8000601@linux.intel.com> <468E83CE.8090800@redhat.com> <46927679.9020005@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46927679.9020005@tmr.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2007-07-09 13:55:05, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >On 07/06/2007 12:35 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>>Where is the ondemand-fix.patch? I can't find any link to it. > >>just click on it in the graph ;_ > >> > >>it's also http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/ondemand-fix.patch (which > >>is submitted already to the maintainers) > >> > > > >Ah, OK, that one just went into the latest Fedora 7 kernel. > > > All this information makes it obvious that even though upgrades are > painful (given slow laptop disks, *really* painful), it looks as if > there are major benefits to be gained. > > Thanks for sharing the information. > > As improved as USB drivers are, I assume that unloading the drivers is > still desirable if no USB hardware is in use. That should be no longer neccessary, IIRC. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html